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Organizer of the Landon-Knox College Clubs throughout Massachusetts, Alexander Welch made the final speech of the evening. He presented some of the more attractive jobs in connection with the club, such as driving carloads of people to the polls, each car being understood to contain very personable young ladies as escorts
...High Fidelity" system were used to preserve the voices, and, to guard against interruptions or failure of the recording apparatus, all talks were recorded in duplicate. Although the Tercentenary work was not the initial attempt to preserve historic speeches, it was the most extensive. The archives already contain recordings of the voices of President Eliot, Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes, Edwin Booth, the actor...
Yukon Gold was founded in 1907 as part of the Guggenheim's gold mining ventures. In the Federated Malay States, it and two subsidiaries hold properties estimated to contain 72,151,000 Ib. of tin. Because the deposits are alluvial, they can be "dredged." Each cubic yard of dredged earth yields about half a pound of metal. Annual output of the company varies according to quotas set every three months by the International Tin Committee. Bases of the cartel allowances, which apply to about 90% of the world's production, are 1929 outputs. In 1935, working...
LETTERS TO AN ARTIST-Vincent van Gogh-Viking ($3.50). Fifty-eight letters written by a tormented genius to a young Dutch aristocrat and artist. Written from 1881 to 1885, they give some insight into van Gogh's personality and aspirations, contain discussions of other painters as well as his theories about his own work. Illustrated, the book contains seven facsimiles of van Gogh's letters, showing the sketches with which he illustrated them...
Well represented by prints of old college scenes, the graphic arts contain some of the rarest of the items to be seen. The two earliest known ones are being shown: the Burgis view is the only version in the first state, and is extremely valuable, and the Paul Revere prospect, said to be the only copy in a private collection. Revere also contributed several fine pieces of silverware. While few people realized it, one of Paul Revere's biggest sources of income was his manufacture of false teeth. While none of these are on view George Washington had a fine...